RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-21 Thread Yuser
Everyone has an opinion on things of this nature and can tolerate different amounts of what ever bothers them. There have been many times I wish I could do the same. The way the economy is now, employers can do stange things like that and most of the time get away with it. IMHO, when an

Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-20 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [luau] Law stuff advice On 17 May 2003 at 18:09, Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be like a programmer taking the part of the program that they coded when they leave the company. Not the same

RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-20 Thread Randall Oshita
Actually, the new owner threatened to sell all the equipment. The new owner is basically a prick, it was a hostile takeover where he screwed the original president over. I'm saying this because I would never do anything of this sort normally. I took business classes and know proper business

RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-18 Thread Randall Oshita
Heck yea! Hehe It was your stuff. You took what was yours. If you had your stuff in my place it's still your stuff. I couldn't stop you from taking it unless you were leasing it to me ( for a specific time ) or had sold it to me. Sounds like you are well rid of them.

Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-17 Thread al plant
Randall Oshita wrote: I quit my job. The company changed ownership and I did not agree with the new management. (They wanted to put the servers in the hallway so they could open up another office!) This company was using my server as their file/print server. When I left I took my server

Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-17 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
, this is a personal subjective opinion and not the view of my employer. al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED]@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 05/17/2003 05:32:59 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-16 Thread Virgil
Get your servers and put it in storage. They can't file charges against you because you are aren't operating the file and print sharing for them. They don't have a case against you. But it seems like they are trying to take your servers away from you. Get that away from they asap. Find paperwork

RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-16 Thread Randall Oshita
Ahh ok cool. Thanks Virgil. Get your servers and put it in storage. They can't file charges against you because you are aren't operating the file and print sharing for them. They don't have a case against you. But it seems like they are trying to take your servers away from you. Get that away

RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-16 Thread Ted Kanemori
to be a hard bullet to swallow but it might avoid HPD, lawyers and getting sued(big bucks). Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Virgil Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [luau] Law stuff advice Get your

Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-16 Thread Brian Chee
Message - From: Ted Kanemori [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: RE: [luau] Law stuff advice Randall, ** Be vry careful **: When you work for a company, and get paid by that company, the company does have certain rights

RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-16 Thread Randall Oshita
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [luau] Law stuff advice Randall, ** Be vry careful **: When you work for a company, and get paid by that company, the company does have certain rights of ownership to intellectual property. How you define intellectual property is dependent

Re: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-16 Thread Patrick Smith
First off, I would be concerned about the filing of a criminal complaint. Considering that possibility you may want to send your former employers a very terse letter saying that you own the property in question. Avoid the desire to elaborate about any of the details. I suspect, armed with